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PERIODICALroe wsfVolum* * * * t- %u2018NXP E R IO D IC A L S BROOKLYN PUB L I B 0 %u00bb p D ARMY P i- A 1 A B R 0 0 K L Y N. NY 1 1 c- %u2014 , x u i u u e i 1*40 1 / 8 0ROOM\' rAHM l f iPL-R !i3a CentsOctober 23,1986Mega, MontaltoPlay HardballTwo State Senate CandidatesDebate In Slope, Page 5Boerum Hill HighRise ControversialA Proposed Building On AtlanticAvenue Termed Eyesore, Page 5Community LearnsAbout HomelessSouth Slope Group Sponsors AnInformation Forum, Page 6P P !@ tdn 2j i xMore Reasons ToVisit The MuseumTwo New Exhibits %u2014 MachinesAnd Japan, Reviewed, Page 11Catch The NewestIn The Next WaveTwo Reviews Of Series, AndWhat's New, Page 15In a fourth floor gallery on October 16 sat a model o f the 1893 plan o f architects McKim, Mead & W hite for the Brooklyn Museum. This preeminent Victorian firm had set out to design the world%u2019s largest museum and its vision was massive, grand and neo-classical. This was the past and only one-sixth of it was ever built.Just 20 feet away and nearly 100 years later, stood the future %u2014 a model of the just-unveiled plan for the expansion of the Brooklyn Museum. And museum officials vowed their determination to make this plan a reality over two decades to come, predicting the start of its first stage in 1988.Although one museum trustee, pointing to the original plan, commented jokingly, %u201c let%u2019s build that one,%u201d the emphasis was on the new model, not the old one, as museum and City officials and the press rushed past the McKim, M ead model quickly to study the vastly different plan that had just been announced %u2014 a design characterized by geometric shapes, modern materials, skylights and a staircase reconstructed on to the Eastern Parkway facade of the present museum.After months o f a selection process that began in M arch and had 103 architectural firms from around the world participating in an international competittion to create a design to guide the expansion of the ^ ' %u00bb * * ii 1 ___ _O i u i m i y u iv iU d tu m w e n l i i t u n i t V / t iit u i y , apartnership of a Japanese and an American firm were declared the winner. A rata Isozaki &Associates of Toyko and James Stewart Polshek and Partners o f New York City were introduced by Alastair B. M artin, chairman of the m useum %u2019sThe ju b ilan t w inners of the m useu m %u2019s international arc h itectu re com petition, Jam es S tew art Poishek and ArataIsozaki, point out the p la n %u2019s distinguishing features, including a tow ering ob elisk. (P h oenix/K irk Photo)board of trustees, as the winning architects from among five finalists who had each received a stipend of $50,000 to develop a master plan for the museum%u2019s expansion.Donning %u201c I have seen the future...%u201d buttons on their lapels and sweaters, the trustees gathered around the model after the formal announcement, nodding approvingly and smiling from ear to ear. %u201c IContinued on Page 3Artful Dodger Exhibit Hits AHome Run At Historical SocietyBY GEORGE FIALALast Wednesday evening, as millions o f New Yorkers huddled around television sets living and dying with the New York Mets as they spent the greater part of a day winning the National League pennant, a much smaller group of fans got together to reminisce about a beloved baseball team of an earlier era. The Brooklyn Historical Society brought together die-hard fans and players of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team in celebration o f the opening of a six m onth-long exhibit, %u201c Brooklyn Baseball and the D odgers,%u201d in tribute to Brooklyn baseball %u2014 a legacy spanning over 120 years ending with the infam ous exodus of m ajor league baseball from Brooklyn in 1957.I guess I was lucky in a way to have been born when I was, in the early I950%u2019s. Too late to be embittered by the destruction o f a culture that came with the move out of Brooklyn by the Dodgers, and just in time to be swept into the new culture that started with the return of National League baseball to New York with the Mets in 1962. A nd, thankfully, not early enough to be corrupted by the suave, talented but faceless winning machine of the day %u2014 the Yankees.I have read about the Dodgers, the team so nam %u00aded because their first ballfield was at a junction of a number of trolly car lines, making it a life and deathContinued on Page 29F o rm er Brooklyn D o d g er p itcher Ralph B ranca signsautographs at the opening reception for %u201c B rooklyn Baseballand the D odgers\week. (Thom Duncan Photo)And The Winner Is: 100 Years LaterBrooklyn Museum Plan Is OverhauledBY L IZ KOCH